The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Life is fleeting we must master it in the present.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.